You can't be serious?

Wednesday, March 31

I dont feel like doing anything today. My landlord just put my new place up for sale, I only moved in a few weeks ago. Im trying to look at the positive, like at least it will force me to keep my place clean or the fact I was planning on moving to Queensland later in the year anyways. But I can't help but be really annoyed! Annoyed they didn't tell us these plans before we moved in, that strangers will be coming through my house every weekend for the next month. Annoyed I have to go through all this stress and it isn't even my house.

I really just want to stay in bed all day and eat chocolate,but I have to keep moving forward.

54 comments:

I know how you feel doll. I have been a bit blue lately because of money and everything seems to come at once. car payments, house, etc. but i'm glad you're staying positive.. i find it really hard to, but we need to keep our chins up and we'll reap the benefits.

aw, that stinks! it's important to look at the positive, though and not be weighed down by the negative. and sometimes all we can do is keep moving forward and not get stuck on what will soon become minor inconveniences in the grand scheme of things.

That is quite lame! We had a similar situation but quite so drastic...came home from our honeymoon to find out our landlord planned on putting the house up for sale. He gave us 6 months to find a new place which ended up being more than enough time.

This happened to me! It was really upsetting especially when they had open houses and let anyone walk through. It all worked out in the end when a family I actually knew bought the house! Needless to say I stayed for a year and had great landlords to boot!

that is so completely not ok! it happened to me at my last house and it was so annoying and i found it really intrusive becuase it made it feel like it wasn't really my place with all the people trodding through. but in the end it worked out fine because my new place is a dollhouse and i love it. but i still think the situation calls for chocolate :)

that is truly horrendous. its difficult to put a good spin on moving especially when you are planning an interstate move soon. pretty much the same scenario happened to me late last year. your blog is so pretty!

@grey rabbit ~ tell me about it!! the easiest thing will just be to time the move with the sale and possible kicking out of my current place. At least that way I wont have to move twice more before the years out.

This is such a weird behaviour...I hope you'll find a new place of your own soon, where you can feel home. I'm planning to move as well, but it's quite hard to leave my appartment, I've such good memories in there! Good luck Lily!

That is awful, I'm so sorry! I would definitely check out the legislation around this, is there anywhere you can get some advice for free? In the UK we have Citizen's Advice Bureau, not sure if there's anything similar in Australia. But I expect you would be entitled to some compensation for the inconvenience and moving costs. I hope it all works out well in the end, maybe it will be a positive push towards moving on and being where you really want to be.

Ugh. I'm fairly sure that landlords just can't do that. Very small comfort but they can't kick you out without those two months of notice. :(

Of course, if they ask you to keep the place looking pretty for them, you don't really owe them anything. Sabotage!

Our landlord did this to us six months after we moved out of a different horrible rental situation and were finally SO happy to be away from scuzzy basements, only to find out we might have to go back to sleeping with machetes next to the bed. We lucked out and ended up buying the apartment though.

That's not fun. That happened to a friend of mine, and he kicked up a fuss about his lease so the landlord moved him into another of his properties without having to sign a lease. Maybe just have a big bake up.

oh i so hear you... we moved from sydney last year to kirra in queensland and we are crazy in love with out apartment! they put it on the market not long after we moved in and i hate having people coming to view it. its such an invasion of our private space! we hate it so much we just signed a new lease yesterday for a place nowhere near as nice but we are so over it and atleast we wont have people coming through all the time. good luck x

what terrible circumstances! you are doing so well to attempt to be optimistic. to help, keep thinking about how lovely and warm and relaxed it is up here in queensland. we shall be delighted to welcome you soon!

Daydream Lily started in 2008 it has since grown to be a leading Australian blog featuring independent design, photography + handmade. I've previously collaborated with Element Eden to create two exclusive collections. Also featured in Frankie Magazine, won the Lomography Blog Awards, named a google blog of note, nominated as a Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Female of the Year and named Kidspot Hall of Fame Blogger. Currently I'm a new Mummy, blogging and working on my shop Style Milk.